Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Earlier this month, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to prosecute “100 percent” of migrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, it became official US policy to routinely separate children from their parents. Already, hundreds of children have been ripped from their families: 658 kids in the first 13 days of the program alone, Customs…
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) Does Betsy DeVos care more about furthering the xenophobic and racist policies of this administration than she does about educating the children of this country? The education secretary’s latest statement would lead us to believe that is indeed the case, since she basically told schools to call the police on…
Photo: Getty The White House on Monday took its dehumanizing campaign to brand MS-13 gang members as “animals” to a new level. A 480-word “article” published on the White House press site Monday morning referred to MS-13 members as “animals” eight different times. The statement went on to list the most heinous crimes allegedly committed…
Photo: Getty Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, a “liberal” blogger who thinks you’d be “crazy” if you don’t have a “reflexive disgust of the homeless,” did a take today on liberals supposedly “defending” MS-13, the gang which Donald Trump is now calling full of “animals” every chance he gets. It was terrible. The impetus for Drum’s…
Photo: AP Here’s a lovely anecdote from the Washington Post about racist White House aide Stephen Miller and racist man-child Jared Kushner laughing at racist jokes told by the racist president of the United States in the racist Oval Office before his first racist address to Congress. Wheeee! From the Post: The night before Trump delivered…
Photo: AP Another day, another nauseating peek into the hellish, unfeeling bureaucracy our country has created for undocumented parents and their children. The latest glimpse comes from a story in the Arizona Daily Star, which reported on Thursday about Operation Streamline, a fast-track program to prosecute undocumented people for crossing the border. The report includes this…
The New York Times published a story last week about the “high-fashion makeover” of Manhattan’s Canal Street, the main artery of Chinatown, that more or less gentrified Chinese people out of the narrative. Their voices were displaced with those of a founder of a “high-end” design firm, an owner of a fine jewelry label and…
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez shot down the federal government’s efforts to strip Daniel Ramirez Medina of his DACA status. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had arrested and detained Ramirez last year, then falsely claimed that he was affiliated with a gang and attempted to deport him. He filed suit, alleging that ICE had…
HOOPERS ISLAND, Md. — There’s something new that has reached this desolate, weathered chain of Chesapeake Bay islands, and it’s starting to choke the watermen’s way of life. It’s fear. And that fear is endangering the centuries-old ecosystem around the crab business on these islands. Nearly half of the Eastern Shore’s crab houses have lost…
Screengrab – Fox News According to his Ted Cruz-penned Twitter bio, Mark Steyn is an “International bestselling author, Top Five jazz recording artist, & a leading Canadian human rights activist.” (He also recorded—I kid you not—a moody, introspective cover of Mel Blanc’s classic “I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat.”) But based on his Thursday…